The thread topic is the credibility of the Church owing to the misbehavior of priests and the mishandling of this by the bishops. But you seem not be interested in how the Church actually functions.
That must be why you keep avoiding talking about the Bishop’s statement on the credibility of the Catholic denomination, and instead keep going on about all kinds of irrelevant stuff.
“The US Catholic bishops’ public face over sexual abuse matters has said the hierarchy’s credibility on fixing the problem is “shredded” and that the situation is comparable to the Reformation, when “the episcopacy, the regular clergy, even the papacy were discredited,”